{"product_id":"blue-stranger-with-mosaic-background-paperback","title":"Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast, obsessive, jumpy, tender, and joyful, the poems in Wayne Koestenbaum's \u003ci\u003eBlue Stranger With Mosaic Background\u003c\/i\u003e take his signature themes--stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation--and cut them into serial strips: tidbits that employ techniques of pointillism, mosaic, grid, aphorism, litany, and philosophical investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe luminaries in this memory-theater range from Yvonne de Carlo to Hannah Arendt. A trip to Venice and an invocation to an eschatological ice-cream man are the two longest trysts in a book exquisitely composed of bits that betoken a new brutalism in a writer known for svelte cadences and artful dodges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700555386943,"sku":"9781933527604","price":12.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/80b8fbc6f4c50a8bd3cbb3f792d0fab2.webp?v=1765017206","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/blue-stranger-with-mosaic-background-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}